Mexico’s ill-fated Austrian emperor
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A Disaster in the New World by Edward Shawcross
i suppose what you can say is thatimpertinent to our present days. You think about interventions in places like arak or afghanistan, many of the problems that term,. that maximilian otfaced in the french anda andless supporters on the ground. So it's that that sort of attempt, i mean, yo, uess to day would be called nation building and regime change. Only these things are all present in 18 60 mexico and in napoleon the third's plan.
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